now they would put untitled. i put dount samurai's garden not thinking that would really with the title. and what happened was when it was time to choose a title my editor had a god awful title she felt was the most brilliant title since the grapes of wrath. it was like this long and everything was in it but the kitchen sink. love, samurai, garden and sushi. it was a terrible title and i didn't like it and i didn't know what to say i had never disagreed. that was the first time i disagree. i said i don't want to look at my book case and see that book and cringe in 30 years. she called me from new york and said, i don't know why we are going over the title thing let's keep it the samurai's garden. then i was saying, thank you, god and it became the samurai a garden which in the end worked when you decide hathat samurai is in your class you will see how it works. it works in many, many ways. i'm pleased it stayed the samurai's garden. not of anybody's choice but because it was the one we didn't want to fight over a

chris hedges or the prize winning journalist and author of many excellent books including the latest untitled days of destruction days of revolt i first asked chris about the cross-section of activism and journalism to concepts that i've embraced and practiced every day on this show here's what he had to say. you know being an activist and you know. necessarily impeach the possibility of being an effect of journalists. as long as one always tells the truth it's journalists who serve a particular ideology or belief system. and i'm s.n.c.c. would be a perfect example of that and i simply see as largely a propaganda arm of the democratic party. that's a problem for me it's been independent of power being in perpetual alienation with power which i think is really what real activists are. does stills with with what a great journalist should be it's journalists who identify with it in a logical systems or systems of power that become compromised and i speak as someone who worked for fifteen years at the new york times where the unwritten credo of the new york times is do not significantly alienate

really kind of promised there'd be no middle tax no middle class tax increase and there'd be no untitled and cuts we're going to get middle tax for middle income tax increases we're also going to get a title because the republicans are guaranteed to their face will there be no tax increase but we got them so it's very difficult because there are very few things they promise their various bases democrats or republicans in this deal violated all the basic promises to both basic constituencies so nobody wanted to be responsible for a deal that everybody was much more interested in grandstanding and talking ideological purity than solving with nation's problems of course that's also how we got in to the difficult situation that we find ourselves in and still now and certainly before the deal as well and next we knew that some point there had to be a compromise and not everybody was going to be happy with every part of this bill that's something that we knew about but you just talked about the payroll tax cuts and the end of them and why no one is talking about that so let me ask you this i m

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